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13 years ago

access environmental variables in _hw.tcl files

Hello all, When I try to print an environmental variables in the Quartus TCL Console (e.g. puts $::env(PATH) ) it works, but whenever I try to access it within a _hw.tcl component script it doe...
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13 years ago

I found the same issue, but never had time to look into it much further.

The following command might be useful to you to use as a work around (if all you want is the path to the _hw.tcl file): 


set path_to_script ]]

where 'info script' gives you the _hw.tcl file, 'file normalize' gives you the full path to that script, and 'file dirname' strips off the _hw.tcl name.

At that point, you can use names relative to the _hw.tcl location.

Cheers,

Dave